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An Edinburgh man who sexually abused three children over two decades has been jailed for six years. William King was convicted of three charges against two girls and a boy at the High Court in Stirling last month.

There will be no fatal accident inquiry into the death of a 34-year-old woman at an Edinburgh hospital in December 2018. Amanda Cox is believed to have collapsed in a stairwell at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary while looking for painkillers days after having given birth.

The Crown Office has backed a memorandum of co-operation over "crimes of the gravest concern to the entire international community" made between the offices of the UK Attorney General and the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.  The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, expressed her support for the

Two of the men involved in the murder of a man who was shot in the head as he sat in a car at traffic lights have been given court orders designed to prevent their involvement in serious organised crime. Kenny Reilly, 29, was shot in Maryhill, Glasgow, on 16 April 2018 and died two days later.

A couple who murdered a vulnerable woman and continued to claim her benefits have been ordered to pay back the profits of the crime. Edward Cairney, 80, and Avril Jones, 61, were found guilty of murdering Margaret Fleming sometime between December 1999 and January 2000. They were supposed to be cari

A driver who hit and killed a pedestrian while fleeing police has been jailed for eight years. Shaun Rimmer was speeding along Great Northern Road in Aberdeen on 16 August 2021 when he hit Simon Musabayana before driving off.

A man has been jailed for over eight years after leaving a potentially explosive device in a city park. Members of the public found the bomb inside a cardboard box which had been left in a shelter in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh on 11 January 2018.

Four men have been jailed for a total of 22 years after £10 million worth of cocaine was found concealed inside a van in Glasgow. Ellis Hardy, Wayne Smith, James Davidson and David Mullarkey all previously pled guilty and were sentenced on Tuesday.

Four men have been jailed for life for the murder of a man who was shot in the head as he sat in a car at traffic lights. Kenny Reilly, 29, was shot in Maryhill, Glasgow, on 16 April 2018 and died two days later.

The trustees of a Kilmarnock leisure centre have been fined after a six-year-old girl nearly drowned in a swimming pool. At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, the trustees of the Kilmarnock Leisure Centre Trust admitted failings under health and safety at work legislation and was fined £10,000.

A Glasgow man who illegally dumped asbestos on private land has been fined. Iain McGuiness, who owned a building maintenance company at the time, drove a van containing the waste to a site in the city’s London Road on 24 October 2019.

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain QC has appointed Ashley Edwards QC as principal crown counsel, in which capacity she will lead the advocate depute team in the prosecution of serious crime. Ms Edwards, who succeeds the late Stephen O'Rourke QC, will report directly to Ms Bain and Solicitor General for Sco

The Crown Office will not conduct a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the deaths of three people in Loch Lomond last summer. Edina Olahova, 29, her son Raza Haris Ali, 9, and friend Mohammad Asim Raza, 39, all drowned on July 24.

An Edinburgh nursery has been fined £800,000 after an 11-month-old boy in its care died after choking on a piece of food. The young boy was eating dinner at Bright Horizons Corstorphine Nursery on 9 July 2019 when he began to choke. When a staff member returned from using the bathroom, she tho

A care home company has been fined £640,000 after one of their residents choked on a piece of doughnut and died. The 65-year-old resident of Orchard Care Home in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire was on a specialist diet of minced and moist food after a severe stroke and vascular dementia left her a